NCST8GUY
Frozen H20 Guy
Thanks! Probably be the second time I've hunted lol.
I will tell you what I do and have done that has been quite successful. I don't hunt an area till I know the conditions is right. I wait for the new moon phase. Keep out the corn but stay out of the area. Keep the pressure off and my scent out of the area as much as possible. Go in there when things are right. I have killed a Big 8 on Dec 27, 2001 up in Northampton County doing this.
Killed a big tall 6 on Dec. 21, 2006. A tall 8 on December 28, 2008. Missed one on Dec 26 2001. My brother missed a big one 2 years ago on my stand here in Harnett county on December 19.
I shot that big 8 up in Rockingham on December 3 doing this. Some of our best land to hunt in December up in Northampton county was the land that we didn't hunt at all between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Christmas week that property was guaranteed money that one of us was going to get a shot at a decent buck.
Every year some big bucks fall in December- keep at it and hunt smart. Bucks have to eat and cold weather pushes them to feed. NEVER hunt a spot if the wind is wrong. Mature bucks are not so hard to kill if they don't know they are being hunted but if they get wise to you they are impossible to see.